Reading Windoze CD's on Linux/Unix

Alan Jackson ajackson
Mon May 17 11:33:05 PDT 2004


Fellow at work asked me this, and I don't know the answer, offhand.

He receives CD's written on Windoze, and when he reads them on his
Solaris box, he gets the 8.3 filenames instead of the long Windows
filenames. How can he recover the long filenames on Unix?

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